Every time someone mentions this fact I think about Zig having recently added this "feature" and my blood boils.

Unused imports or variables being errors is the most idiotic and overrated paper cut ever implemented in compilers. In no universe it is a good idea.

I posit there are actually no or very few bugs it catches, and in exchange it ruins people's iterative development, flow and hyperfocus states when experimenting, because poor compiler can't deal with an unused import, fix it now or else. Now we need an IDE setup to deal with this? And why the hell isn't this a feature that can be turned off?

If only I could throw the person that invented this crap into the flaming sun.